Port Fees

A 1G port is $0/year. More than one 1G port requires board approval; if the board grants an exception, the participant is charged the 10G fee. That is, a 2x1G LAG would be $250/year.

The first 10G port is $250/year. Additional 10G ports are $1,000/year. More than four ports requires board approval.

A 100G port is $3,000/year. We currently have no limit for 100G ports besides available ports and reasonable technical need.

These are port fees, so remote switch operators pay for the ports they use. MICE does not charge participants who connect to a remote switch. Charges between remote switch operators and participants connected to their switches are not controlled by MICE.

Payment status is public.

A non-payment disconnection policy will be developed; it will be applied to all participants neutrally.

Mid-year changes will be pro-rated to the day the new port is ready on the MICE side. The pro-rated credit from the old port(s) will offset the pro-rated charges from the new port(s), but no refunds will be given.

Participants on the core switches must provide their own optics. To simplify troubleshooting for our volunteer administrators, MICE recommends the use of first-party optics (Arista optics on the Arista switch, Juniper optics on the Juniper switch).